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Pine Sales Gompany

Whistle

If less people would whistle more and whine less; hustle more and holler less; work more and worry less; boast more and beef less; the war would be won a whole lot quicker.

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JAMES

WHTTCOMB RrLEY WROTE.

What delightful hosts are theyLife and Love !

Lingeringly I turn away, This late hour yet glad enough They have not withheld from me, Their high hospitality. So, with lace lit with delight, And all gratitude, I stay, Yet to press their hands, and say"Thanks! So fine a :-:t O."Unight!"

Taste Or Looks

"I don't customer. like the looks of that halibu said the lady t{<{<

"Lady, if it's looks you're after, why'not buy gold fish?" asked the market man.

Not A Joiner

The Treasury Department, income tax division, received the following letter from a lady: "I have received your application blank, but as I already belong to more organizations than I really should, I must decline at this time to join your income tax." rl.**

The Final Questionnaire

When the final surnmons come, each one will be asked five questions:

First: What did you accomplish in the world with the power that God gave you?

Second: How did you help your neighbor, and what did you do for those in need?

Third: What did you do to serve God?

Fourth: What did you leave in the world that was worth while, when you came away?

I-ast: What did you bring into this new world, that will be of use here?-J. S. Durkee.

A Tough Choice

Mose, charged with theft, was on the witness stand, and the judge sought to discover if he knew the value of an oath. He said:

"Mose, if you tell a lie under oath, do you'know what happens?"

Mose said: "Yassuh, Jedge. I goes to Hell."

"And if you tell the truth?" persisted the judge.

"I goes to jail," said Mose. ***

TIRE TROUBLE?

She was a good looking blonde, and when her tire went flat she hailed a passing motorist. He stopped.

"'Wonder if you'd help a girl in trouble?" she inquired.

He said "Sure, Sister, what kind of trouble do you want to get into?"

DOG

Pity the man who knows no ing paws, Who wins no welcome back his return, Who never sees the of little claws, Upon his polished The adoration of I pray he may learn eyes that see, Within a their deity.

-Russell Wragg. *

Techni

: "Define a bolt and nut, girl wrote: "A bolt is a l8 THE CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT October 15, 1942 by a young lady in thing like a stick of hard such as iron, with a square bunch on one end and a lot scratching wound round the other end. A nut is simi to a bolt, only just the opposite, being a hole in a wrinkles around the k of iron, sawed off short with of the hole." The startled teacher blinked ,,A." times, and then marked that one

TOLSTOY ON LIFE

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